Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.

By:

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

Contributor(s):

Grossman, Edith, 1936- [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Penguin Books, 2014.Description: 348 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9780241968567 (paperback)
0241968569 (paperback)

Uniform titles:

Amor en los tiempos del cOlera. English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Love stories.

DDC classification:

863 GAR

Summary: This is a novel about the attempts of an old man and woman to rekindle their childhood love affair, set on the Columbian coast. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Fiction Collection	863 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100658633

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'It was inevitable- the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.'

Fifty-one years have passed since Fermina rebuffed Florentino and married Juvenal Urbino instead. Swearing his love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Fermina's husband is killed, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?

Love in the Time of Cholera is re-issued on Gabriel Garcia Marquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

Originally published in Spanish in 1985.

This is a novel about the attempts of an old man and woman to rekindle their childhood love affair, set on the Columbian coast. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina.

Translated from the Spanish.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writes to the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.